Welcome
You have just entered the Groundwork Thames Valley Urban Forestry Website! To complete the questionnaire click on the ‘Questionnaire’ tab at any time. If you would like to learn more about this website first please read on.

Who are Groundwork?
We are an independent social, environmental and economic regeneration charity. We work with partners from the local community, local authorities, business and government, on projects that seek to engage local people and motivate them to improve the quality of their life by using and improving the local environment. If you would like to find out more about what we do and where we do it, please click on the ‘Groundwork’ tab at the top of the page which will take you to our main website.

What is this website about?
This website has been created as part of a project that seeks to help us gain a better understanding of what people really think about urban forestry in and around their neighbourhoods. The main part of the website is an interactive questionnaire, which allows you to fill in information about your own thoughts feelings and experiences related to urban forestry.

Not sure what Urban Forestry is?
Don’t worry! Loosely translated Urban Forestry is the planning, planting and maintenance of every tree you could encounter in a built up environment (i.e. a town or a city). This can range from trees planted in front gardens or along streets through to larger numbers of trees planted as community orchards, hospital gardens, or areas of woodland in a public open space. So really it’s just been given a name that you might not be familiar with.

What we would like from you
We would really like you please take part in our interactive questionnaire, NO WAIT! Honestly its very different to the long and boring paper questionnaires that you might have taken part in before. We have worked really hard to put together new and interesting ways of collecting information from you so go on give it a try we really want your feedback!

How long does it take?
In all there are 7 steps to the interactive questionnaire part of the website. Depending on how familiar you are with using computers the process could take as little as 5 minutes to complete. However, if you have lots of comments to make (and we really do want your feedback) there is no maximum time limit.